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Republicans' pro-Putin plan: racism

The GOP's "welfare queen" attack on Zelenskyy makes clear a much larger dynamic at play in Ukraine war

Salon

Nigeria ruling party candidate Tinubu wins presidency in disputed election

Lagos (AFP) - Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu won Nigeria's highly disputed weekend election, electoral authorities said on Wednesday, securing the former Lagos governor the presidency of Africa's most populous democracy.

AFP

Nigeria's ruling party candidate Tinubu wins presidential election

Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu won Nigeria's highly disputed weekend election, electoral authorities said on Wednesday, securing the former Lagos governor the presidency of Africa's most populous democracy.

France 24

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Nigeria ruling party candidate Tinubu wins most votes in disputed election

Lagos (AFP) - Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu has won the most votes in Nigeria's highly disputed weekend election, according to final results on Wednesday, almost certainly securing him the presidency of Africa's most populous democracy.

AFP

Mexico’s president hits out at implicit criticism from US

‘There’s currently more democracy in Mexico than in the United States,’ Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says.

Al Jazeera

Mexican president: Mexico has more democracy than US

Mexico's president says his country is more democratic than the United States

The Independent UK

Could Joe Biden be the most consequential American president of our times?

Speculation over US President Joe Biden’s intention to run for office again is reaching fever pitch. Biden is, reportedly, on the verge of announcing he will indeed seek reelection. Opinion pieces are being churned out at a rapid clip. Polls are being commissioned with a feverish intensity.

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Mexican president disparages pro-democracy demonstrators

Mexico’s president lashed out Monday at demonstrators who protested cuts to election funding over the weekend, belittling their concerns about threats to democracy and dashing any hopes that he would try to ease rising political tensions

The Independent UK

Editorial: How to Be Problem-Oriented in Institutional Reform

Reforms of governmental institutions should take into account of current economic challenges, such as shrinking demand, supply shocks and weakening expectations, and be driven by efficiency concerns and common values, including peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom

Caixin Global

Tens of thousands protest Mexico's electoral law changes

Tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City's vast main plaza Sunday to protest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's electoral law changes they say threaten democracy.

WEKU

Mexican protesters see electoral overhaul as a threat to democracy

MEXICO CITY — Juan Manuel Martinez remembers the days when he would vote in Mexico’s elections with no confidence that they were being run fairly.

Los Angeles Times

Tens of thousands protest Mexico electoral reforms

Tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City's vast main plaza to protest electoral law reforms that they say threaten democracy

The Independent UK

Mexicans turn out in droves to protest electoral overhaul, see democracy at risk

Huge crowds gathered in Mexico on Sunday to condemn government moves to shrink the electoral authority as a threat to democracy, in what appeared to be the largest protest so far against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's administration.

Reuters

Outdated and out of time: Biden’s crusade for global democracy is doomed to fail

The US president won rave reviews in Kyiv and Warsaw. But his old, cold war mindset is out of step with a changing world

The Guardian - UK

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AFP

Israelis in new mass rally against judicial reforms

Tel Aviv (AFP) - Flag-waving Israelis gathered in a massive protest for the eighth straight week on Saturday to press their opposition to government legal reforms critics see as a threat to democracy.

AFP

Nigeria counts votes after tight election hit by long delays

Lagos (AFP) - Nigeria tallied votes after a tightly contested election on Saturday, with three frontrunners competing for the presidency of Africa's most populous democracy in a ballot marred by long delays.

Reuters

Democracy means judicial autonomy, German envoy says on Israel overhaul

Germany believes an independent justice system is a tenet of democracy and is closely watching the Israeli dispute over a government plan for judicial change, its envoy said, as protesters flooded the streets for an eighth straight week on Saturday.

AFP

Vote count starts after tight Nigeria election

Lagos (AFP) - Vote counting started in Nigeria's tightly contested election on Saturday, with three frontrunners vying to govern Africa's most populous democracy after a ballot hit by delays and isolated violence.

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Reuters

Factbox-Nigeria election 2023: how it all works and when to expect results

Nigerians were voting in presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday that are seen as the most wide open since the country switched from military rule to democracy in 1999.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Ex-felons deserve the right to vote

Minnesota this month became the latest state to restore voting rights to ex-felons once they are released from prison. Democrats around the U.S. have been pushing to reduce or eliminate restrictions on voting, in particular fighting to extend voting rights to people on parole or probation. Many Republicans have been…

Manchester Evening News

The Greater Manchester town where only four people sleep rough

Mo and Will have come through dark times

The Independent UK

Philippines 1986 revolt marked with dictator's son as leader

Pro-democracy protesters have marked the anniversary of the 1986 “people power” revolt in the Philippines with the son of the dictator, who was ousted in that uprising, now the president in a stunning comeback

Reason

A Conflict Between Liberal Democracy and Authoritarian Nationalism: Implications of the Ideological Stakes in the Russia-Ukraine War

The war is often described as a conflict between authoritarianism and liberal democracy. That reality has some underappreciated implications.

The Conversation

I assisted Carter’s work encouraging democracy – and saw how his experience, persistence and engineer’s mindset helped build a freer Latin America over decades

When former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter founded the nonprofit Carter Center in 1982, one of their goals was to help Latin American countries – many of which were emerging from decades of military dictatorship – transition to democracies.

The Independent UK

Jill Biden to Namibian youth: Protect your democracy

U.S. first lady Jill Biden has told the young people of Namibia that the democracy their parents and grandparents fought for is now theirs to defend and protect

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